Former Green Beret and MMA fighter Tim Kennedy has reportedly been badly wounded in a firefight in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The controversial fighter appears to have been contracting with Erik Prince’s Vectus Global. Vectus partners with governments, international organizations, and private-sector leaders to help them solve some … [Read more...] about Ambush In the Heart Of Darkness

I rate Laurence Burrows’ War on the Turtle’s Back as an essential text on woodland warfare in the 18th Century. Author Laurence Burrows has another title forthcoming from military history publisher Helion & Co., delving back further in time to a world-shaking series of conflicts in the northeastern woodlands. I’ll be snapping this one up as … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Beaver Wars, Blood Trails, Sicario, Zulu War Myths & Hurdy Gurdy

Flintlock Operator stormed Kings Mountain on the 246th anniversary of that critical battle. In a manner of speaking, at least. This is a POV run-and-gun video that puts us in the moccasins or brogans of an Over-Mountain Man taking on Major Patrick Ferguson’s Loyalist troops in the Carolina backcountry... What would it have looked—and felt—like … [Read more...] about Flintlock Operator Storms Kings Mountain

Guest post by Rick Schwertfeger Frontier Partisans Southern Command, Austin, Texas The Pikunis still lived close to their historic, natural state in the lands south of the Medicine Line and east of the Backbone of the World. In the 1860s into the 1870s theirs was a traditional, complex society of smaller, related groups in a confederacy - the … [Read more...] about Fools Crow: Blackfoot Life & Resistance On The Western Frontier

We are a little over a month from publication of a volume that will be a mandatory “get” for every Frontier Partisan’s library. Patrick O’Donnell, author of the fantastic The Unvanquished about Civil War scouts and partisans, is taking on a cadre of warfighters who are foundational to the Frontier Partisans mythos. Library Journal just gave his … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Revolutionary Snipers, A Hot Violinist, Sleepy Hollow, King Solomon’s Mines, Central Asian Spaghetti Western

Synchronicity or the Almighty Algorithm — really both — seemed bent on beckoning me to the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps it was the fine Scottish weather we got for a couple of weeks in September... First there came a teaser for what looks to be a sumptuous depiction of a deer hunt in the … [Read more...] about The Highland Call

It’s hard to imagine it nowadays, but there was a time not really so very long ago when Great Britain moved through the world with supreme self-confidence, convinced of its suitability to rule over a quarter of the globe. Chris Ash is a throwback to that age, an age that perhaps hit its apogee right around when the Second Anglo-Boer War broke … [Read more...] about Battling Over Boers

Our friend Andrew Wills aka Hawken Horse attended the Nashville Film Festival world premier of the forthcoming film rendition of Louis L’Amour’s Flint. He says the filmmakers knocked it out of the park. The plot is classic save-the-ranch, but the hero is unusual. From the Penguin Random House edition of the L’Amour novel: He left the West … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Apache Scouts In Mexico, ‘Yee-haw Taken’ & Flint

Long-time readers of Frontier Partisans know that I seldom slag off on bad creative work. I much prefer to extoll things I like and find of value, and I tend to simply remain silent on that which I disdain. This, however, cannot pass unremarked. Indeed, it begs for a broadside. Ready guns, full complement... MGM+ is vandalizing Treasure … [Read more...] about The Desecration Of Treasure Island

A few years back, I did a presentation on my book Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans at a local church. During the Q&A period, a young woman in the back threw out a challenging question: How do you know what you say you know? This young woman had tattoos and attitude, and some of the audience was taken aback and … [Read more...] about Ground Truth?